Simon Jenkins of The Guardian doesn’t appear to believe in volcanoes. One wonders if he’d be happy to send his family up in a plane right now. Meanwhile, Kate Ravilious of the New Scientist reports that we could be in for 50-80 years of increased Icelandic volcanic activity and earthquakes, making air travel over and around the Atlantic disrupted for years—but then, if we don’t curb our emissions we’ll probably be cooked to extinction at some point between now and 2100.